PEALE.] 
NEVADA. 
Analyses of mineral springs in Arizona. 
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Constituents. 
Mineral 
Park, 
Bitter 
Spring. 
Gypsum 
Spring, 
Detrital 
Valley. 
Hot 
Springs, 
Eio San 
Fran- 
Magnesium carbonate. 
Calcinm carbonate 
Sodium sulphate 
Magnesium sulphate . . 
Calcium sulphate 
Iron sulphate 
Manganese sulphate . . 
Sodium chloride 
Potassium chloride 
Magnesium chloride. . . 
Calcium chloride 
Total. 
Oscar Loew, analyst (1875). 
NEVADA. 
Parts in 
100,000." 
Trace 
65.3 
118.5 
Trace 
Trace 
Parts in 
100,000." 
Trace 
12.0 
51.6 
172.8 
130.1 
Parts in 
100.' 
397. 8 
Trace 
5.4 
0. 3252 
0. 1025 
0. 1981 
J&L3 
0. 6668 
The State of Nevada is better off in respect to springs than in regard 
to streams of running water. She occupies a prominent place as a 
mineral- spring State. Both hot and cold springs (the former predom- 
inating) are found in every county. Walton's work credits the State 
with two localities, and yet there are at least ten localities that are 
utilized for medicinal purposes, and many of them were so used by the 
Indians long before settlements were made by the whites. Our table 
includes more than one hundred localities, and yet only a part of 
the actual number of springs are given, for some of the groups contain 
as many as forty or fifty or even more individual springs. It is im- 
possible at present to give the total number of springs. Steamboat 
Springs is probably the best known resort, as it has long been readily 
accessible. The warm and hot springs are found mainly in connection 
with geological fault lines or fractures of the strata. Salt springs and 
borax springs are numerous. Sulphureted springs are frequently 
found also. So few of the springs have been analyzed that the greater 
part of them must be considered as unknown, so far as their chemical 
character is concerned. The list of springs has been compiled from 
various maps and such Government reports as were accessible, sup- 
plemented by information furnished by members of the United States 
Geological Survey who have worked in Nevada. 
Mr. I. C. Eussell and Dr. W. J. Hoffman have added largely to the 
list from their personal knowledge of the State, and thanks are also due 
to Mr. L. A. Buckner, of Winnemucca, Kev. 
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